I am in the midst of changing jobs right now, and with that the changing of zip codes. I am heading back to Irvine and finally moving out on my own, and living across the street from a Tapioca Express, which means I will smell like noodles and boba.
As many people have oh so cleverly noted, I’m becoming the Fight Club guy with all my Ikea furniture and browsing through the catalog while taking a poop. I am very sore from building Ikea furniture, and their breakfast is about as good as you’d expect from a $1.99 breakfast (I went for the deluxe. I roll big.)
I played with the Wii. Somewhat underwhelmed. I played Gears of War for the Xbox 360. I need an Xbox 360 now.
TIME Magazine just released a list of what they chose as the best 100 albums. Now, I’m not varied enough of a music listener to go through and critique all the albums they chose, but I’ve always had this question for people who deem an album to be “great”: What makes an album great?
It wasn’t until recently that I began listening to albums in their entirety. Radio singles have always been my forte, and 90% of the time the artist’s album is full of crap anyway. However, some albums are meant to be listened as a whole, from beginning to end. Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” is a prime example of that. I’d be hard pressed to recommend a single track off the album for someone to determine whether they would like the album or not.
But I’m always seeing certain albums on these “best of” lists. Take for example U2’s “The Joshua Tree.” I finally got around to listening to it, and it sucks. Big time. The only songs on there that were any good were the singles that everyone knows and hears on the radio. And I ask people, “Really? You like that album? Are you sure you don’t mean you like four songs off that album?”
And Oasis’ “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?” Everyone loves “Wonderwall,” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and “Champagne Supernova” are excellent songs, too. Heck, the TIME write-up even singles out those songs specifically. What about the rest of the album? I thought it sucked. Skip. Skip. Ooh I know this song. Skip. Skip. Bleh.
It’s time we drew a distinction between a “good album,” and an album that has a few awesome songs on it. What do I consider to be a good album? Albums that I can listen to from start to finish and not have horrible songs come up that make me scrambling for the skip button.
Some albums that would be on my list:
- Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- Snow Patrol - Final Straw
- The Postal Service - Give Up
- The Killers - Hot Fuss
- Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
- Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
- Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Spider-Man 3 trailer has hit, and I want it now.
From the trailer, it looks as if they are doing the symbiote storyline justice and dedicating the entire movie to Spider-Man and the suit, and hopefully saving the next movie for Venom. I was worried that they would rush the Sandman plot and then bring out Venom for the second half of the movie, but it looks as if it is not so.
I’m sure people are disappointed that there’s no shots of Venom in the trailer, but they gotta have some surprises.
lovex321: hi cuz
lovex321: r u still at work
valloq: um
valloq: it’s 11am
valloq: most people are still at work
lovex321: LOL
lovex321: i dunno
valloq: you ask weird questions
valloq: you’ve really never had a job, huh?
lovex321: =(
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